Archive for the ‘Geekery’ Category
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Tags:
asus eee,
easy peasy,
netbook,
nintendo ds lite,
ubuntu
I got a Asus eee recently from woot, very happy with this little netbook! I can't get over how super super tiny it is! I did end up swapping out its SSD HD and RAM for something better (16 GB SSD HD and 2 GB RAM), which is an extremely easy upgrade. Also changed the OS to easy peasy (a netbook version of ubuntu), as I hated the native version of Linux that this shipped with.
Here's my new eee next to my Nintendo DS lite just to give an idea of how really little the netbook is.
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Tags:
cowl,
knitting,
yarn geek
Making some progress on this baby alpaca yarn cowl. Found some fantastic handmade pewter buttons on Etsy to go with it, too.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Tags:
gaming,
mmorpg,
world of warcraft
I make no attempt to hide the fact that I enjoy video games. I don't have much time to play them, but when I can sneak in some time it's a great way to unwind. So for a bit of show-and-tell: I have a level 80 shadowpriest in Warcraft, and here she is riding her black war bear. And yes, I know that the previous sentence is meaningless to most of you.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Tags:
knitting,
yarn geek
This time of year is very dangerous for those of us who like to make things. You're stuck inside, it's cold, and that chunky baby alpaca yarn is just begging to be made into a cowl. My yarn stash keeps getting bigger with exotic blends of mohair, silk and alpaca. I guess I am a bit of a yarn geek.
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Tags:
ms-dos 5,
windows 3.1
While cleaning out some old bookshelves, we found these relics: piles and piles of floppy disks.
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